Theodore Siren is a Navy veteran, author, and educator based in Northwest Florida. He holds an M.A. in Literature and a B.A. in Creative Writing from the University of West Florida, where he has taught literature, creative writing, and composition as an adjunct professor. His academic research centers on the intersection of storytelling and healing — particularly the role of creative writing in processing trauma — a focus shaped by his own military service and his work founding the Creative Coping Workshop, a creative writing program for veterans through UWF’s Military and Veterans Resource Center.

His published work includes short fiction, articles on the therapeutic power of narrative, and a thesis exploring writing-as-healing for veterans. His background also includes technical theatre training and experience as an actor, skills that inform his approach to the performance podcast edition of his debut novel.

That debut, Jekyll; or, The Doctor’s Records, is the first book in a literary gothic series that reimagines the icons of nineteenth-century horror — Shelley’s creature, Stevenson’s doctor, Wilde’s immortals — not as separate legends, but as fragments of one story that has never been told from the monster’s side. It is a novel about duality, identity, and the cost of the selves we conceal, written in immersive confessional prose that draws on the tradition Siren studied and now teaches.

Every reader has a self they perform and a self they hide. Theodore Siren writes for both.